Giants fans celebrate in Hoboken bars

Chants of, “Super Bowl!,” reverberated into the streets last night in Hoboken as streams of giddy Giants’ fans spilled out of local bars across the city, celebrating the Giants’ overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

“One of the best games ever, and the right team won the game,” Giants’fan Sanjay Mittal, of Jersey City, said between high fives in front of The Shannon,106 First St., several minutes after the game ended last night.

Mittal said the victory came with a hint ofsadness for him, being a former Penn State student, as former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno died yesterday. “He (Paterno)had a few players on the New York Giants, and I know he’s looking down, saying, ‘yes’.”

Lines formed in front of several bars along Washington Street yesterday more than an hour before kick-off.Crowds remained strong in bars around Hoboken, even as the game headed into overtime.

Seconds after the victory, fans at The Shannon danced as Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” was played.

But there was also a small, passionate circle of 49ers fans scattered around several corners of local bars, and they were less than pleased.

“I’m angry,” Joey Albertini, a Morristown resident said minutes after the game ended. “I cried, I laughed, but not so much I cried so much more.”